The importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in economic growth has
made them a central element in much recent policymaking. Of particular interest have been …

Increasing interest has been shown by governments in maintaining the competitiveness of
their economies by the use of policies designed to encourage advances in science and …

In this paper we explore the drivers of different types of eco-innovation in European SMEs.
Drawing upon a database of 27 European countries, empirical evidence is found for the …

The concept of the regional innovation system (RIS) has been developed into an important
framework for evaluating innovation performance. The study reported in this paper explores …

Recent models of the innovation activity depict the process as non-linear, and characterised
by multiple interactions, systems integration and complex networks. This paper examines …

This article is about what governments have done and could do to promote the production,
diffusion, and use of scientific and technical knowledge in order to realize national …

The European Union is mobilising considerable effort to cope with the major challenges
confronting European society: in a context of increasing globalisation of the economic …

This paper is devoted to the analysis of evolution of innovation concepts, aspect and types.
First emergence and evolution of different aspects and concepts of innovation are analysed …

The resource-based view is presented here as the theoretical framework for empirical
research on the determinants of technological innovativeness in small firms. These …

This chapter presents a historical examination of models used to explain innovation. It
focuses on the attempts to describe innovation as a process generating new products and …